#louis guiabern is masterfully executed villain that i will take any bullet for

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Building off my poster post from earlier, I think it's so interesting that Louis and Will's posters are sort of similar in a way

[MAJOR GAME SPOILERS HOLY SHIT DO NOT COMPLAIN IF I SPOILED YOU]

Call me crazy, or looking at it too deep, but the symbolism and communication that these posters provide is so insightful to the lore of the game and these characters.

The way they face towards the same side shows their goals and ideals (A world free from discrimination) match. It's just that their ways, represented by the embellishments on their posters, of doing it are different.

Will's poster is simple, minimalistic, and catches your eye by being just one simple color, his likeness, and a slogan. A design choice that makes it general, appeals to everyone, sort of like how Will is a will (hah get it) for the people. Help everyone in need, as the team always says.

Louis' poster has gaudy reds and yellows, screaming at you almost to see his ideals; Red and yellow being Louis' main motif, blood, flames, his own hair even, the final events of the game, and the Tyrant Star. Gold is a color of regal elegance, and red is always associated with intensity and urgency. These two mix into what Louis' goals and aspirations turn out to be, an "elegant" world ruled by strength and strength alone. A world where to live for a cause, is to fight for it. A holy magnum opus of his.

While Will's likeness is a self portrait drawn with realism in mind, Louis is stylized. You can compare Louis here to a shoujo anime protagonist, beauty, and just beauty alone. The significance of how their messages truly look. Will has a realistic agenda, and actions reflecting that realism, making change, but reforming the system from within. Louis on the other hand, has an unrealistic, stylized view of his own twisted goals. He and his followers could only view this goal as beautiful, to escape their own anxieties about the future, placing their trust within a decorated, ideal man.

Finals be damned, I am writing about metaphor refantazio whether you like it or not.